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From: cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Zip drivers available?
Date: 10 Jul 1996 15:46:05 GMT
Organization: BC Systems
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dcon@eden.com (dcon@eden.com) wrote:
> Has anyone ever built a driver for Iomega Zip drives? Or... Can the
> drive be used as a regular scsi drive? (or as a parallel port device,
> whatever the case may be) Any info would be great.
I installed the drive, ran fdisk, disklabel, and newfs. In order to get
the disklabel to work you will need to add an entry to disktab to define
the drive.
To prolong the life of the drive and media I have not defined my /archives filesystem in fstab, meaning that a disk does not need to be present at boot time. By defining an appropriate entry for AMD I've been able to automount the disk when needed. The only problem I've encountered is that AMD does not automatically unmount UFS filesystems as it does NFS filesystems.
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